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From Websters 1828 Dictionary (link)
Lugubrious LUGU'BRIOUS, a. [L. lugubris, from lugeo, to weep.] From WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) (link)
lugubrious
adj 1: excessively mournful
From Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) (link) lugubrious adjective Etymology: Latin lugubris, from lugēre to mourn; akin to Greek lygros mournful Date: 1585 1. mournful; especially exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful <dark, dramatic and lugubrious brooding — V. S. Pritchett> 2. dismal <a lugubrious landscape> • lugubriously adverb • lugubriousness noun From Oxford English Reference Dictionary (link)
lugubrious From Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary (link)
lugubrious
If you say that someone or something is lugubrious, you mean that they are sad rather
than lively or cheerful. (LITERARY)
...a tall, thin man with a long and lugubrious face...
He plays some passages so slowly that they become lugubrious.
= melancholy
ADJ
• lugubriously
The dog gazed at us lugubriously for a few minutes.
ADV: ADV with v, ADV adj
From English Explanatory Dictionary (link) lugubrious lu:ˈɡu:brɪəs adj. doleful, mournful, dismal. øølugubriously adv. lugubriousness n. [L lugubris f. lugere mourn] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (link)
Lugubrious \Lu*gu"bri*ous\, a. [L. lugubris, fr. lugere to
mourn; cf. Gr. ? sad, Skr. ruj to break.]
Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly;
doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious
look.
Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious
emblems of mortality. --Hawthorne.
-- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ness, n.
From Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms (link) lugubrious a. Mournful, sorrowful, doleful, sad, gloomy, melancholy, complaining. From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 (link)
38 Moby Thesaurus words for "lugubrious":
aggrieved, anguished, black, bleak, careworn, cheerless,
depressant, depressing, dismal, dispiriting, doleful, dolorous,
dour, dreary, dumb with grief, glum, grief-stricken, griefful,
grieved, grievous, in grief, joyless, lamentable, morose, mournful,
oppressive, plaintive, plangent, plunged in grief, rueful,
saturnine, somber, sorrowed, sorrowful, sorrowing, sullen, tearful,
woeful
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